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>> tonight, karen finney on the politics of romneys ongoing tax nightmare. and dean baker on the undeniable policy implications. and why on earth is twitter getting on gabby douglas over her hair? ill explain. president obama has mitt romney on the ropes over a tax plan that doesnt add up and would raise taxes on the middle class. just one day after a damage independent analysis, the obama campaign put out an ad that will air in eight battle ground states. >> mitt romney made $20 million in ...

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This is "the ed show." as ed would say, lets get to work. >> mitt romneys middle class tax increase. he pays less, you pay more. >> on the air and on the stump, president obama is drilling mitt romney over his middle class tax hike. and the romney team is trying to change the narrative. >> that report you referenced is a joke. >> tonight, karen finney and the dnc patrick gas par on the politics of romneys ongoing tax nightmare. and dean baker on the policy implications. and why on earth is twi...

Justification for it. but the commerce clause wasnt the only justification. the obama administration was hoping to win the case on the commerce clause instead of the more politically uncomfortable power to tax. the only part of the affordable act that the supreme court struck down was the provision that requires all states to expand medicaid coverage substantially. that medicaid coverage is now optional for the states, which means millions of people who are going to receive that expanded coverag...

The obama administration was hoping to win the case on the commerce clause instead of the more politically uncomfortable power to tax. the only part of the affordable act that the supreme court struck down was the provision that requires all states to expand medicaid coverage substantially. that medicaid coverage is now optional for the states, which means millions of people who are going to receive that expanded ç coverage under medicaid will now receive nothing. we will have more on the polic...

Contact with their surrogates to try to flood the zone on these things, but its absurd to have the obama people saying what the president said, he didnt use the best words but thats not what he meant but now lets spend as much time as we can going after mitt romney for the exact same thing. both sides will say no, there are real policy implications what the other side said but thats just not the case, at least not as big a deal as they are making it on either side. >> we should also point out th...

Those things and the order of them too. the political is the less important. the economic impact in the future policy implications are bigger. id add one item to your list. these are the people who are unemployed and are still looking for work. the unemployment that is people who have given up looking all together. and the people who have accepted a part-time job in lieu of fulltime employment, those rates have been nearly double, 18 or 19%. it will be interesting to see what that number is tomo...